Support Board Chat And Help Desk: Cross-site scripting
Support Board Chat And Help Desk is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Support Board Chat And Help Desk
- Plugin slug
support-board---chat-and-help-desk- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Oct 17, 2018
This CVE was published Oct 17, 2018 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Support Board Chat And Help Desk to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
In the Schiocco "Support Board - Chat And Help Desk" plugin 1.2.3 for WordPress, a Stored XSS vulnerability has been discovered in file upload areas in the Chat and Help Desk sections via the msg parameter in a /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php sb_ajax_add_message action.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N